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Saturday, April 7, 2012

My neighbor is cooking a prime rib tomorrow which gave me a serious craving for some beef ribs.

We bought a few racks of beef back ribs (not short ribs) and I smoked them for a late dinner. They were ready just in time for The Ultimate Fighter - Live! (Smoked ribs - broken ribs...what's the difference?) This isn't a recipe post, just about how I made my ribs last night.

I removed the membrane from the back of each rack. For me, beef ribs are a little harder to remove the membrane than pork ribs but here are a few tips. Use a blunt knife and separate the membrane at the 3rd rib from the short end. Work a finger underneath and through to the other side.

Work your way to the end, grab that and pull backwards.

It will go easily until the last 2-3 bones where you'll hit a fatty area - be careful there. Work slowly between each crease and it should come off in one piece. Then trim off the excess fat with a sharp knife.

I seasoned both sides with cracked black pepper and then liberally with a beef rub. I used a commercial rub but you can use a mix of salt/pepper/garlic powder in a 2:1:1 ratio. Smoked them bone side down for two and 1/2 hours.

Then I wrapped them in foil drizzled with butter, agave nectar, and roasted garlic hot sauce. I cooked them 1 hour that way. Next I removed them from the foil and cooked them one more hour. I glazed them with BBQ sauce and let that cook on for 15 minutes. After a 10 minute rest, we dug in!

I love the tender texture and rich taste of beef ribs, I like them as much or more than pork! (Blasphemy?)

Giveaway - Steven Raichlen's Best Ribs Ever

Speaking of killer ribs, America's grill master, Steven Raichlen, is releasing his new book Best Ribs Ever - 100 Killer Recipes in just a few weeks on April 25, 2012. (You can pre-order at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and select online outlets.)

Best Ribs Ever celebrates the ingredient that epitomizes barbecue
and inspires passion, obsession, and almost primal lust in griller and
eater alike. And there’s no one better than Steven Raichlen, America’s
foremost and bestselling grilling author, to preside over the religion
of the rib. Here’s a bone-by-bone guide to choosing, buying, and
handling ribs. Eight essential techniques for prepping and cooking. The
six great live-fire methods, beginning with direct grilling to
spit-roasting. Plus rubbing, saucing, mopping, resting, serving.

Even if you don't follow BBQ media like I do, you know who Steven Raichlen is. You have probably seen his TV shows Primal Grill and BBQU on PBS and his Barbecue Bible books (James Beard awards and New York Times best sellers) are among the most popular around. I have several of his books and find them to be a great source of information, not just recipes. I turn to them often for quick references or just inspiration.

Workman Publishing and Steven Raichlen are sponsoring my April giveaway: An autographed copy of Best Ribs Ever.

How To Enter
Each person can receive up to a total of 2 entries per day as follows:

leave a commentbelow (NOTE:
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are the winner. Something like "EggerinFL from the Egg Forum" or
"swibirun from the BBQ Brethren forum" is enough.)

Mention the giveaway with a link to this post in Twitter and use the hashtag #RaichlensBestRibsEver

The Rules

Giveaway entry period begins today, 12:01pm April 7, 2012
and ends April 24, 2012 11:59pm. Winner will be announced on this blog on April 25, 2012.

Comments will be numbered by order received and random.org will generate a random number for the winner.

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the specified time, a reserve winner will be drawn from the original
entries.

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Blogger Party

Our third annual blogger party is coming up. We always have fun lakeside at Larry & Bev's home in Greenback, TN.

The East
Tennessee Worldwide Blogger Party

Hosted
by Katherine Aucoin, Larry Doolittle, and Chris Grove

Date:
May 27, 2012 – rain or shine

Time :
Noon – til everyone leaves, eat at 1:30

Who: Any
fellow bloggers who are willing to make the trip and significant
other, or not.

Food:
We will be serving crawfish/shrimp boil or Cajun pork BBQ Po Boys for
the non- seafood fans.

Drinks:
We’ll provide tea and soft drinks but feel free to BYOB

Donation:
We’ll be asking for a small donation ($10 or so) to help with the
food cost, but we won’t know what it will be for sure until we know
the attendance.

RSVP:
We need to know if you will be coming by May 6 so we can order the
fresh seafood. Let Larry know at grandpop1@yahoo.com.

Mmmmm...steak on a stick! These look amazing. And now I want prime rib. Thank you. I've watched Steve on tv a couple of times and really enjoyed it (love the outtakes, actually). But I don't own any of his books. Would love a chance to cook with him! =)

Your ribs look so yummy! As good as pork? Really? If the party wasn't the weekend before final exams for the boys I would have made arrangements to be there this year. I'm going to try to pull something together for an informal blogger party here in Florida during the summer. Any Florida visits scheduled for you? If so I'd be glad to try to plan around it. Oh and I would also love to win an autographed copy of the book. Hope you and your family have a wonderful Easter :)

I love Steve R. and watch him on PBS would love to win the cookbook..Love your blog, it always makes me hungry for the beef you barbeque up..wow whe..form mary jane s. from momanddad00@clear.net..Happy Passover and Happy Easter tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!